goose
/ɡus/ verb C2- To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks (of a person).
- To stimulate; to spur.
- To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
- To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
He/she/it gooses · Past goosed · Past participle goosed · -ing form goosing
Verb forms
- Base form
- goose
- He/she/it
- gooses
- Past
- goosed
- Past participle
- goosed
- -ing form
- goosing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I might have told him that he was clearly going on a wild-goose chase, but, on second thoughts, it seemed better to clear the stage by letting him go.
“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
I don’t mind being a goose so much if somebody else is goosey, too.
What a stubborn little goose I was.
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